The Seeley Lectures

The John Robert Seeley Lectures are given biennially by a distinguished visitor to Cambridge on a topic in Political Thought and its History.

The Seeley Lectures are generously supported by the Cambridge University Press, and are subsequently published by them.  

The most recent Seeley Lectures were given in 2024 by Professor Eric Nelson (Harvard) titled 'Democracy as Meritocracy: Post-Classical Greek and the Early-Modern Rehabilitation of Popular Rule'.

Information on other past lectures can be found in our Seeley Lecture Archive.